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1206 picks were made in the ATD 2012 and MLD 2012 and yet there are some all-time greats who were overlooked and others arguably as good as those drafted earlier even if just in a depth or supporting role on an all-time great bottom-6 line, third pairing blueline, backup goalie or assistant coach; others are near all-time greats of marginal worth honoring in talk of all-time greats in hockey history; others are question marks, 'what if' wonders one could reason might have been as good as the best of their era if only they weren't held back from the top stage for some reason or another. These are all the sorts of candidates that are worthy of drafting to inform future considerations in the ATD and MLD, the top-1000 or so in hockey history.

We will draft a full 25-man roster. You must draft 2 goalies, 6 defensemen, 12 forwards and a coach, with 4 additional picks to be used for whatever position(s) you want.

Trading of picks is allowed. Must trade an equal number of assets.

There is a 4-hour clock. Draft order will be released Friday morning, randomized by an unbiased outsider.

Suggestion: POST A REASON OR STATISTIC OR DESCRIPTION WITH YOUR PICK to aid discussion and let us know a bit about the pick, as many may not be household names, especially from other eras.

Any player from any league or era are eligible as long as they were not drafted or add/dropped in the ATD 2012 or MLD 2012.

Player selection should be based on what they have done (the 'next best' draft, so to speak, the greatest all-time careers not honored by being picked in the main ATD 2012 draft), and not what they will do in the future, though it's understood that there is a bit of projection with players whose careers were cut short by injury.

At the end of the draft there will be a 48-hour period to trade or add/drop players, at which point a team could trade or else: pick up an undrafted UFA and simply discard a draft pick.

All teams make the playoffs. Don't hurt your squad's chances by neglecting any eras or sources of players, or focusing too heavily on just one.

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Plus, usually a couple of off-the-board picks per team. After all, that's all part of expanding our knowledge of players in hockey history. Dig up some gem and profile him earlier, where deserved. Take a flyer on a guy or two in the later rounds, especially extra skater status. But avoid stinkers!

Merger was 1926, so you don't have to select a single pre-merger player if you don't want.

Well I don't really care for the era requirements as I never liked anything to be forced on the person in question. This is a hobby for me and probably is to most people. If someone wants to pick 23 modern players let them do so, I wont and I doubt there is many around in the lower drafts who will.

I'd like to scrap the era requirements. There's lots of good value in all eras left and I think people should select guys they truly like than scooping up a guy to meet an era requirement that they know of primarily from a couple stats and exposure in prior drafts.* I trust this group that even without requirements, all eras will be represented adequately.

* not that stat based picking is necessarily bad. I'm guilty of it often enough

Yeah, I think we should scrap the era requirements. Let us draft the best available players (Which will be from across all eras) instead of making it a requirement to draft a player from different eras.

Yeah, I think we should scrap the era requirements. Let us draft the best available players (Which will be from across all eras) instead of making it a requirement to draft a player from different eras.

I think someone who ignores any era does so at their own peril. It's possible that one could make an awesome team exclusively out of modern players, but not probable.

Hey guys, I threw out the idea earlier of having an 8-hour "dead spot" in the clock since we all have 4 hour clocks in this draft. Do you guys want that, or should we just say "**** it, it's the AAA draft"?

keep in mind if we choose the latter, we'll likely have a few people's picks getting skipped each night. Which is fine, if you are fine with it.

Yeah, I think we should scrap the era requirements. Let us draft the best available players (Which will be from across all eras) instead of making it a requirement to draft a player from different eras.

Agreed. Otherwise someone in it to honor hockey history will draft the best available players, may accidentally miss an era requirement, their first round opponent will get a bye, and the whining will commence.

Ok, I'm ready to go. First, I'd like to extend a congratulations to Zambia Mania for their MLD win, it was well deserved. Second, the Buffalo Mugwumps are proud to select, from the Trail Smoke Eaters, goaltender Seth Martin

Ok, I'm ready to go. First, I'd like to extend a congratulations to Zambia Mania for their MLD win, it was well deserved. Second, the Buffalo Mugwumps are proud to select, from the Trail Smoke Eaters, goaltender Seth Martin